Monday, December 10, 2012

Christmas Ornament Contest

Greetings!
I told you about my ornament contest a few weeks ago. Students who wanted to enter the contest could make an ornament for the library Christmas tree. The directions were to make or decorate an ornament that fits the theme of Books and Reading. Well, last week I got the ornaments in and had only twelve students enter. All the entries were from grades 5 and under. I thought you might like to see the entries I got. A few were quite clever.
















I hope you have a wonderful holiday.

Audrey

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Christmas Display

Greetings!

This is the time of year to pull out all your Christmas books and make a great display. Put them in like categories and display them together. For example, put all the ones about Jesus’ birth together with a small Nativity set. You can put a small Christmas tree on a table and books about Christmas trees or even just trees around it.

Maybe you have a lot of books by one author such as Patricia Polacco. Find a photo of the author on Google Images, (don’t forget to copy the source ) print it out and put it in a Lucite frame or laminate it so students can know what the author looks like. You can also put some biographical information there, too. This helps students realize that authors are real people.

Even with a wide variety of Christmas books, you can still put some kind of Christmas decoration or even just some garland around the books. If you put some snowmen around, you can even leave those up for a month or so afterwards! (I told you that I do not like to decorate!)

I hope you have a great week. Don’t overdo or you’ll get sick.

Audrey